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Elive: Where Debian meets Enlightenment

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Elive is a Debian-based desktop Linux Live CD distribution with the Enlightenment window manager, version 17. On Tuesday Elive 3.0 was released to the public.

DistroWatch reported the details about this release, 'Elive is a Morphix-based Linux live CD designed for fans of the Enlightenment desktop environment. Version 0.3 is the project's first stable release: "Elive 0.3 released. This version includes hard disk installation, NVIDIA driver, the possibility to compile and install any program in the live CD system or install any extra package on the fly, stable and fully configured environment. With this version installed on the hard disk, you have an option to upgrade to another version with a simple apt-get upgrade." Also includes support for several languages, the second beta of OpenOffice.org 2.0, and the latest Enlightenment 17 straight from its CVS repository.' The Elive 3.0 package list can be found here.

I was very excited to try Elive when it was initially released as Elive Beta 1 in mid July, as I was an Enlightenment user in the early Linux days. I thought Elive Beta 1 was cool but Enlightenment itself was not much different from what I remember from a few years back. Check out these Elive Beta 1 screenshots. Once again Elive got my attention as 3.0 uses the latest version of Enlightenment. This release is guaranteed to move many Linux users to Enlightenment and restore faith in this top-notch window manager.

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Comments (3)

SFN ·
I'm currently using e17 myself. The Elive CD was solid though I did not install from it. Instead, I used the repositories that the Elive folks have graciously made available to add it to my Ubuntu install. Using the repos with Ubuntu involves some work (mainly, replacing 5 or 6 Ubuntu packages with Debian packages) but with Debian they seem to be flawless.

Anybody who enjoys a good combo of speed and beauty should try out e17.
paperfrog ·
I was floored by the elive CD, but would prefer to keep Ubuntu under the hood.

Would you mind publishing the elive repository? And which pacakages did you replace?

Thanks! -kit
SFN ·
I posted a HOWTO on the Ubuntu Forums

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=61488

Some are reporting problems. Others find it working well. Probably the thing to remember most is that e17 is still alpha (at least I think it's not beta yet). If you have problems, post your questions there. I'm not an enlightenment expert but I'll see what I can do.

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